• Gracey v. Albawardi

    Publication Date: 2024-12-31
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sidney S. Liebesman, Seth A. Niederman, Kasey H. DeSantis, Joshua K. Tufts, Fox Rothschild LLP, Wilmington, DE; Justen P. Phelps, Gibson Watson Marino LLC, Wichita, KS for petitioner.
    for defendant: William E. Green, Jr., Halloran Farkas + Kittila LLP, Wilmington, DE; Ezra Ishmael Young, Law Office of Ezra Young, Ithaca, NY; Lisa M. Zwally, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Wilmington, DE for respondents.

    Case Number: 2024-0394-LWW

    Court rejected divorce judgment creditor's reverse veil piercing claim where the judgment was directed to her ex-husband, not his corporate entities, and there was no evidence the ex-husband had used the entities to perpetuate a fraud or had disregarded the corporate form.

  • Dlayal Holdings, Inc. v. Al-Bawardi

    Publication Date: 2022-01-11
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lisa Zwally Brown, Corinne R. Moini, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Daniel K. Astin, Ciardi Ciardi & Astin, Wilmington, DE; Albert A. Ciardi, Walter W. Gouldsbury, Ciardi Ciardi & Astin, Philadelphia, PA; Marc Litt, Evan Weintraub, Wachtel Missry LLP; New York, NY for third-party plaintiff. Sidney S. Liebesman, Katelyn M. Crawford, Fox Rothschild LLP, Wilmington, DE; Justin P. Phelps, Gibson Watson Marino LLC, Wichita, KS for defendants.

    Case Number: D69670

    The court held that service of process on three Kansas residents under 6 Del. C. § 18-109(a) was not effective service because the three defendants were not managers of the subject entity.